Dreams (The Allman Brothers Band album)

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Dreams
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Compilation album by
The Allman Brothers Band
ReleasedJune 20, 1989
Recorded1966-1988
VenueVarious
Genre Southern rock
Length299:09
Label Mercury Records
Producer Various
The Allman Brothers Band chronology
Brothers of the Road
(1982)		Dreams
(1989)		 Live at Ludlow Garage: 1970
(1990)

Dreams is a compilation album by the Allman Brothers Band. Packaged as a box set of four CDs or six LPs, it was released on June 20, 1989.

Contents

Dreams is a collection of recordings taken from not only the Allman Brothers Band, but also from throughout the musical careers of the Allmans and the band's other members prior to and following its formation. The set was compiled by Bill Levenson (who had put together the Eric Clapton box set Crossroads the year before) and released to coincide with the band's 1989 reformation.

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Track listing

Disc One

  1. "Shapes of Things" - The Allman Joys (Paul Samwell-Smith, Keith Relf, Jim McCarty) - 2:48
  2. "Spoonful" - The Allman Joys (Willie Dixon) - 3:40
  3. "Crossroads" - The Allman Joys (Robert Johnson) - 3:33
  4. "Cast Off All My Fears" - The Hour Glass (Jackson Browne) - 3:25
  5. "Down in Texas" – The Hour Glass (Eddie Hinton, Marlin Greene) - 3:07
  6. "Ain't No Good to Cry" – The Hour Glass (Al Anderson, Wildweeds) - 3:06
  7. "B.B. King Medley": "Sweet Little Angel"/"It's My Own Fault"/"How Blue Can You Get" - The Hour Glass (B.B. King, Jules Taub/John Lee Hooker/Mel London) - 7:06
  8. "Morning Dew" - The 31st Of February (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) - 3:46
  9. "God Rest His Soul" – The 31st Of February (Steve Alaimo [nb 1] ) - 3:56
  10. "I Feel Free" - The Second Coming (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) - 3:31
  11. "She Has Funny Cars" – The Second Coming (Jorma Kaukonen, Marty Balin) - 4:48
  12. "Goin' Down Slow" - Duane Allman (Jimmy Oden) - 8:47
  13. "Dreams" (Demo) (Gregg Allman) - 4:55
  14. "Don't Want You No More" (Spencer Davis, Edward Hardin) - 2:25
  15. "It's Not My Cross to Bear" (Gregg Allman) - 4:56
  16. "Trouble No More" (McKinley Morganfield aka Muddy Waters) - 3:48
  17. "Dreams" (Gregg Allman) - 7:15

Disc Two

  1. "Statesboro Blues" (Blind Willie McTell) - 4:06
  2. "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon) - 4:57
  3. "Midnight Rider" (Gregg Allman, Robert Payne) - 2:58
  4. "Dimples" (Live) (John Lee Hooker, James Bracken) - 5:02
  5. "I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town" (Live) (William Weldon) - 9:23
  6. "Revival" (Dickey Betts) - 4:04
  7. "One More Ride" (Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts) - 2:41
  8. "Whipping Post" (Live) (Gregg Allman) - 22:53
  9. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Live) (Dickey Betts) - 12:58
  10. "Drunken Hearted Boy" (Live) (Elvin Bishop) - 6:54

Disc Three

  1. "You Don't Love Me"/"Soul Serenade" (Live) (Willie Cobbs/Curtis Ousley, Luther Dixon) - 19:28
  2. "Blue Sky" (Dickey Betts) - 5:10
  3. "Little Martha" (Duane Allman) - 2:13
  4. "Melissa" (Gregg Allman, Steve Alaimo) - 4:02
  5. "Ain't Wastin' Time No More" (Live) (Gregg Allman) - 4:46
  6. "Wasted Words" (Gregg Allman) - 4:21
  7. "Ramblin' Man" (Dickey Betts) - 4:48
  8. "Southbound" (Dickey Betts) - 5:10
  9. "Jessica" (Dickey Betts) - 7:30
  10. "Midnight Rider" - Gregg Allman (Gregg Allman) - 4:26
  11. "One Way Out" (Live) (Elmore James, Marshall Sehorn, Sonny Boy Williamson II) - 7:59
  12. "Long Time Gone" - Dickey Betts (Dickey Betts) - 4:30

Disc Four

  1. "Can't Lose What You Never Had" (McKinley Morganfield aka Muddy Waters) - 5:52
  2. "Come and Go Blues" - Gregg Allman (Gregg Allman) - 4:46
  3. "Bougainvillea" - Dickey Betts & Great Southern (Dickey Betts, Don Johnson) - 7:13
  4. "Can You Fool?" - Allman and Woman (Michael Smotherman) - 3:19
  5. "Good Time Feeling" - Dickey Betts & Great Southern (Dickey Betts) - 4:28
  6. "Crazy Love" (Dickey Betts) - 3:44
  7. "Can't Take it With You" (Dickey Betts, Don Johnson) - 3:34
  8. "Just Ain't Easy" (Live) (Gregg Allman) - 5:01
  9. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Live) (Dickey Betts) - 10:52
  10. "Angeline" (Dickey Betts, Mike Lawler, Johnny Cobb) - 3:40
  11. "Things You Used to Do" (Gregg Allman, Keith England) - 3:42
  12. "Nancy" – Dickey Betts (Dickey Betts, Jim Goff) - 3:51
  13. "Rain" - Gregg Allman (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 3:03
  14. "I'm No Angel" - Gregg Allman (Tony Colton, Phil Palmer) - 3:41
  15. "Demons" – Gregg Allman (Gregg Allman, Dan Toler, David Toler) - 3:28
  16. "Duane's Tune" - Dickey Betts (Dickey Betts) - 5:51

All songs performed by The Allman Brothers Band, unless otherwise noted.

Live Songs

  • Disc 2, Tracks 4-5 recorded 4/11/1970 at the Ludlow Garage in Cincinnati, OH
  • Disc 2, Tracks 8 recorded 3/12/1971 at the Fillmore East in New York, NY
  • Disc 2, Tracks 9-10 recorded 3/13/1971 at the Fillmore East in New York, NY
  • Disc 3, Track 1 recorded 8/26/1971 at A&R Studios in New York, NY
  • Disc 3, Track 5 recorded 4/2/1972 at the Mar Y Sol Festival in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
  • Disc 3, Track 11 recorded 9/26/1973 at the Winterland in San Francisco, CA
  • Disc 4, Tracks 8-9 recorded 7/19/1979 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD

Notes

  1. ↑ In chapter 4 of his autobiography My Cross To Bear, Gregg Allman says that he wrote "God Rest His Soul" but he sold the songwriting credit to Steve Alaimo.

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References

  1. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
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